This Past Weekend · Episode 655
Sal Vulcano | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #655
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Episode findings
- Sal says Impractical Jokers has been on the air for fifteen years. He says filming for season thirteen is about to begin.
- Sal recalls Bruno Mars quoting the show during a concert finale. His friends reacted, but he missed the words amid the fireworks.
- Sal says Hey Babe and Taste Buds were put on hiatus, not meant to end permanently. He describes recent talks about returning.
- Sal says he has shot ten episodes of a new talk show and plans ten-episode seasons. Conversation and sketch comedy are part of the format.
- Sal says discussing his family publicly lifted a weight. He still wants to protect his children and says he will not post them online.
- Sal wonders whether laughing during his set looks like a crutch. Theo encourages the natural laugh and the shared good time behind it.
- Sal says he bought a stranger's wedding tape in nineteen ninety-five and still wants to return it. The reunion has not happened in this account.
- Sal recalls keeping a goldfish for seven years, then keeping it frozen for over fifteen. He says it moved homes with him three times.
- Sal recalls a frightening school horse ride, then being moved to an older horse. The replacement stopped at a tree while the others took the trail.
Timestamped episode commentary
Sal Vulcano | This Past Weekend #655
Source-based notes from automatic captions. Recollections, jokes, estimates and future plans stay attributed. No independent medical, political, casting or audience-rank verification is implied.
1. 1:09 - The next season is approaching in his account. Sal says Impractical Jokers has been on the air for fifteen years and that season thirteen is about to start filming. Those are interview-bound production statements, not a fresh network-schedule check or an audited broadcast history. Their discussion of a show people can watch together also stays grounded in feedback he says he hears, rather than an invented audience survey.
2. 3:32 - A remembered conversation becomes a television rabbit hole. They recognize a shared earlier discussion of Highway to Heaven and look up its premise and ending. The question about a satisfying conclusion leads into their frustration with Lost. Their jokes about viewers falling apart are exaggerated reactions, not evidence that a television finale caused deaths or divorces. A reboot they find while searching is distinguished from the new show they initially meant.
3. 12:56 - The Bruno moment happened while he was not hearing it. Sal recalls being at the concert when Bruno Mars quoted Impractical Jokers during the finale. He thought the people beside him were simply especially excited about the song; fireworks meant he missed the words. The played shoutout supplies a separate recorded moment. Murr missing the show is another recollection, with the drive estimate revised and uncertain rather than an exact travel statistic.
4. 27:03 - Dancing brings a different kind of visibility. Sal says he went to a Motown night for a friend's birthday and danced for a couple of hours. Theo contrasts that freedom with worry about being filmed and seeing himself dance badly. He wants room to believe he is a good dancer without a mocking clip taking that away. The bar and night are source memories at the interview, not a current event recommendation or a diagnosis of either person.
5. 33:07 - The old podcasts are on hiatus, in his words. Sal distinguishes Hey Babe with Chris DiStefano from Taste Buds with Joe DeRosa. He says they still intend to return and describes recent conversations about doing more. That is not proof that a relaunch has happened. He also describes ten already-shot episodes for a new talk-show idea, planned in ten-episode seasons with conversation and sketch comedy. The likely release timing remains tentative, and the captioned title is not being treated as a verified official spelling.
6. 37:18 - Confidence changes his part of the exchange. Discussing the film, Theo compares himself first to a wall someone bounces a ball against, then to somebody who catches it and throws it back. He describes moments of growing confidence and improvising with a friend. The production stories include wind and fires, but their comic imagery is not a safety report or proof of who caused a fire. Sal separately explains that a staged fire-related prank was pulled after the real fires because of the sensitivity.
7. 44:17 - A disclosure on his own terms is different from giving up privacy. Sal says the earlier family conversation felt comfortable and that he could choose whether it stayed in. He now talks about family in his touring material and says the public acknowledgment lifted a weight. He still explicitly says he will not post his children online. The headline framing of a secret wedding also gets corrected: he describes simply not having announced it, rather than a covert event.
8. 47:11 - The second time has a different foundation. Sal says raising another child lets him notice fleeting stages with experience he lacked the first time. He describes ordinary moments of the siblings sitting together and the difficulty of expressing how much he loves them. His bedtime question about what made a child proud is a personal parenting practice, not a universally proven method. The episode's medical and child-development opinions are not being offered as clinical guidance.
9. 1:01:47 - The wedding tape still needs a reunion. Sal says he and a friend bought a home wedding video at a thrift store in nineteen ninety-five. He explicitly warns that the exact date may be wrong. A later possible sighting led nowhere; contact through a relative also did not become a completed return. He says he still wants to give it back and has a digitized copy he does not plan to share. This story is not an instruction to find or contact the private couple, or permission to publish their tape.
10. 1:15:55 - A natural laugh is not the same as manufacturing a laugh. Sal says he enjoys himself on stage but worries it could look like a crutch. Theo questions rigid rules about what comics can use and encourages the laugh as part of who Sal is. They separate having a good time with a room from doing something merely to force a response. It is a conversation about their craft, not a guarantee that any particular technique improves every set.
11. 1:20:20 - Fish has become an unusually long goodbye. Sal recalls keeping the goldfish for seven years and then keeping its remains frozen for over fifteen, including three moves. Those are his remembered spans, not independently checked pet records. He does not name the fish beyond calling it Fish, and he qualifies the feeding story by admitting it may not have proved a special bond. His suspicion about how it died remains unproven and is not an accusation against a named person.
12. 1:30:48 - The horse story ends at a tree. Sal remembers a frightening school ride and qualifies the initial rodeo comparison: it was enough to scare him, rather than literally a professional rodeo. After he called for help, he says he was moved to an older horse that stayed eating leaves while the others followed the trail. Later space questions produce corrections about a puppy and the Challenger's destination. At the close, production and tour dates remain source plans, and the wedding-tape wish returns as an unfinished callback.
Navigation and bonus moments (source timestamps; phone cameos and sponsor reads labeled):
0:32 - Sal Vulcano guest introduction
1:09 - Season thirteen filming and fifteen-year statement
2:35 - Shared background viewing and family overlap
3:32 - Remembered Highway to Heaven conversation
6:20 - Question about a definitive ending
7:16 - Lost and viewer frustration
8:35 - Doctor friend from school
11:04 - Medical lookup and exam questions, not guidance
12:56 - Bruno Mars concert recollection
13:52 - Fireworks and missing his own shoutout
14:15 - Recorded Bruno shoutout and uncertain drive estimate
22:45 - PrizePicks sponsor read
24:02 - Ultra sponsor read, not verified health claims
27:51 - Motown birthday outing
28:40 - Theo and the fear of a mocking dance clip
30:05 - Blues and the food-table memory
33:07 - Hey Babe and Taste Buds changes
33:28 - Hiatus and stated intention to return
33:58 - Ten episodes and the new talk-show format
35:18 - Learning while making a movie
37:18 - Acting confidence: wall versus returning the ball
40:38 - Foul Play and a prank removed after the fires
43:52 - Family disclosure in the previous appearance
45:54 - Secret-wedding headline corrected
46:45 - Another child and a different parenting foundation
48:18 - Ordinary sibling moments
51:08 - Emotion language as a personal family practice
52:27 - Bedtime and the question about feeling proud
53:44 - Shopify sponsor read
55:05 - BetterHelp sponsor read and unverified sponsor statistic
56:36 - Talking about family while keeping children private
1:01:47 - The thrift-store wedding tape story
1:05:30 - The unfinished show idea and renewed wish to return it
1:11:19 - The exaggerated count is explicitly admitted false
1:15:55 - Laughing during a set
1:16:52 - Crutch labels and natural amusement
1:17:27 - Theo encourages Sal to keep his laugh
1:21:40 - Seven years with the goldfish, in his account
1:22:30 - Frozen fish and three moves recalled
1:24:16 - Hand feeding and the bond qualifier
1:28:34 - Naval Academy photo and salute uncertainty
1:30:48 - School horse ride and calling for help
1:32:03 - The replacement horse stays at a tree
1:37:22 - Remembering the Challenger broadcast
1:38:08 - No puppy: explicit correction
1:43:58 - Neither has tried zero gravity
1:45:06 - Not headed to the moon: explicit correction
1:45:32 - Christa McAuliffe recording and abrupt clip detour
1:48:53 - Legal-work-at-the-coffee-shop interview excerpt
1:50:26 - What happened to dog stars?
1:52:16 - Wanting a dog later and fearing another loss
1:53:57 - Parenting question and sleep changes
1:55:23 - Family boundaries and different approaches
1:57:35 - Theo hopes for a future family
1:59:39 - Siblings and childhood Christmas
2:03:53 - Roast recollection and feeling mean
2:07:44 - Wedding-anniversary callback
2:08:08 - Source plans for shows and touring
2:09:01 - Closing thanks and the unfinished reunion wish
2:09:20 - Recorded outro music
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